

It will obviously be different per the operating system and web browser. This tells the web server that this particular user is running Safari 8 on a Mac running OS X 10.10.2. When Safari visits a website, it will send a string of text such as this: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.3 Safari/600.3.18 this User Agent profile was obtained from my iPhone using the "what's my user agent" website.Īlso from this How-To site you could try these or similar "User Agent" profiles: The cbsnews live stream video plays on my iPhone 4S running iOS 9.3.5 so after clearing your cache and killing Safari Web Server, you could try a User Agent profile like: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone CPU iPhone OS 9_3_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13G36 Safari/601.1 Also, try clearing your cookie cache - including " supercookies". With Safari, try killing the process Safari Web Content (from Activity Monitor). You can use the " What Is My User Agent" website to determine what you are sending out. See this related question from security.stackexchange. Modifying your "User Agent" profile won't necessarily bypass them. There are several ways for websites to determine which browser and kind of device you are using.

How does it recognize the device I'm using?
